UnionFS
Sign in to saveUnionfs is a filesystem service for Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD which implements a union mount for other file systems. It allows files and directories of separate file systems, known as branches, to be transparently overlaid, forming a single coherent file system. Contents of directories which have the same path within the merged branches will be seen together in a single merged directory, within the new, virtual filesystem.
Key facts
- Filesystem.name
- Unionfs
- Filesystem.full_name
- Unification File System
- Filesystem.developer
- Open source community
- Filesystem.file_system_permissions
- POSIX
- Filesystem.compression
- No
- Filesystem.encryption
- No (but can be provided at the block device level)
- Filesystem.OS
- Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD
- Filesystem.website
- unionfs.filesystems.org
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Official website
Unionfs: A Stackable Unification File System
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- unionfs.filesystems.org
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/unionfs
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Unionfs is a filesystem service for Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD which implements a union mount for other file systems. It allows files and directories of separate file systems, known as branches, to be transparently overlaid, forming a single coherent file system. Contents of directories which have the same path within the merged branches will be seen together in a single merged directory, within the new, virtual filesystem.
When mounting branches, the priority of one branch over the other is specified. So when both branches contain a file with the same name, one gets priority over the other.